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As the title suggests, the purpose of this thread is to discuss Aquarion Series Mecha, Weapons, and Technology

Please keep discussion about plot and storylines in the relevant Episode Discussion threads, not here. It's also a good idea that this thread discuss things that have shown up in the anime, manga or light novel - discussion of things that have only been announced should stay in the appropriate thread.

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I have the Chougokin Aquarion and inside the instruction manual was a nice bit on the mecha design by the designer Shouji Kawamori.

Shouji Kawamori said that he has always been interested in both transforming and gattai mecha, of course the grandfather of both transforming and gattai mecha was Getter Robo. He really wanted to create something like Getter Robo, 3 planes, 3 forms, but the one flaw for the transforming and gattai process was the extreme changes in proportions that makes the processes physically impossible.

He wanted to design a transform gattai process that doesn't only keep its proportions perfectly in animation, but also in reality. To do this, he used Legos, he literally designed and built the entire Aquarion through careful design and trial and error with Lego blocks. In the end he created a Lego mecha with 3 plane components that could combine perfectly in 3 ways. The design was then polished and detailed and made in 3D so that all the transforming and gattai processes will always look perfect.

Gattai was very important to the story concept of Aquarion that's why he paid so much attention on it.

speaking of Getter Robo, does the Aquarions also posses some kind of nano-technology?

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